Ukrainian defense tech investment platform Resist.UA has launched Resist 2.0, a new European fund targeting up to €50 million to connect international investors with Ukraine's rapidly growing defense and dual-use technology sector.
Ivan Maltsev has spent a decade building and investing in crypto across three continents. His read on 2026: the UAE leads on regulation and ecosystem, the US still owns the venture capital, and Europe is maturing, just more slowly.
If you’re a founder, at least once you’ve googled “go-to-market strategy.” You’ve asked ChatGPT, and maybe read a few Medium posts.
You’ve even downloaded every free template out there. And then followed the same default advice — define your ICP, pick channels, build funnels, and...
Back in 2016, after visiting a university incubator in Estonia, I returned to Ukraine with a simple idea: our students also need a space to test ideas, fail safely, and build things that matter.
For the first two years, we conducted small pilots at various universities. Students volunteered, formed informal...
Most CEE startup founders start their entrepreneurial journey by building an agency, like Omnisend, which began as a digital marketing agency, or MailerLite, which started as a web design studio in 2005 and pivoted in 2010 to productize email marketing. It’s a simpler way to generate revenue, learn the...
Around 90% of startups fail, and nearly half do so because they build something no one actually needs. The root cause is simple: founders fall in love with their idea, skip user validation, and assume the market will care. It rarely does.
Success often depends on clearly understanding the problem,...
